Bigelow Tea Celebrates National Cookie Day – With Tea and Cookies! (What else?)
Friday, 3 December 2010 by Ilona
Lemon Lift Glazed Butter Cookies
December 4 is National Cookie Day! Is there anything more natural than tea and cookies? Bigelow Tea simply can’t imagine it!
What better way to celebrate than with a batch of cheery butter cookies? With the holiday season in full force, you might want to whip up a double or triple batch. It never hurts to be prepared for unexpected guests!
Our Lemon Lift Glazed Butter Cookies are a light and tasty treat, and includes our refreshing Lemon Lift tea! For a little more variety, you can frost your cookies with our Crowning Glory Glaze. Happy Cookie Day!
Lemon Lift Glazed Butter Cookies
Ingredients:
2/3 cups confectioners sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
*Lemon Lift® Glaze (see recipe below)
Yield: Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
Instructions:
- Beat together the sugar and butter until smooth and creamy. Stir in flour and salt, blending until dough is formed. Divide dough in half; shape into disks and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Roll dough on lightly floured surface to ¼” thick.
- Cut into shapes with cookie cutters, re-rolling scraps for additional cookies.
- Place cookie shapes on ungreased cookie sheets and bake 12-15 minutes, or until edges start to brown. Remove cookies to wire racks to cool. Drizzle with Lemon Lift® Glaze.
*Lemon Lift® Glaze: Pour 2 tablespoons boiling water over 1 Bigelow Lemon Lift® Tea Bag in a small bowl. Let steep 5 minutes. Remove tea bag, squeezing out liquid. Gradually stir in 1 to 1 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar until mixture is a glaze consistency, adding a few drops yellow food coloring, if desired.
Ingredients:
1 cup water
4 tea bags Eggnogg’n Tea
2 cups 10x confectioner’s sugar (powder sugar, icing sugar)
Instructions:
Boil water. Place 4 tea bags in water and steep for 3-4 minutes. Remove tea bags and let liquid cool for ½ hour. Place sugar in mixing bowl. Add 2 tbsp. (30ml) tea liquid and stir until completely mixed, should be the consistency of honey. If not, gradually add more liquid in small amounts to reach desired consistency.
Can be used as an icing for holiday cookies, scones, muffins, or ice cream.